database

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Recent Examples of database The winning projects range from initiatives involving several museums to collaborations with communities of origin to the individual cataloging of archives and databases. — Anne Doran, ARTnews.com, 2 Oct. 2026 The database for the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner confirmed that Fiona Lowe died Tuesday by suicide and died in a hospital. — Alexandra Del Rosario, Los Angeles Times, 2 Oct. 2026 But reading enterprise data and executing business transactions directly at the database level have fundamentally different risk profiles. — Mia Urman, Forbes.com, 1 Oct. 2026 Nassar is one of more than 20,000 individuals whose names were recently purged from the Michigan State Police database. — Alejandro Avila Outkick, FOXNews.com, 1 Oct. 2026 See All Example Sentences for database
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Noun
  • Jamal, meanwhile, was allegedly handing over information about his clients to the FBI.
    — Mia Cathell, The Washington Examiner, 5 Oct. 2026
  • Compelling information, but not strong enough to convince a politician.
    — Kent Sepkowitz, STAT, 5 Oct. 2026
Noun
  • Information for this article was contributed by Nicole Winfield and Joseph Wilson of The Associated Press.
    — Arkansas Online, Arkansas Online, 30 Sep. 2026
  • An organization may publish dozens of articles without creating clear relationships among them.
    — Jessica Wong, Forbes.com, 29 Sep. 2026

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“Database.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/database. Accessed 6 Oct. 2026.

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